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Northern Lights (Matinees)

WITH JOSEPH SWENSEN

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Programme

  • MAXWELL DAVIES

    Concert Overture ‘Ebb of Winter’

  • NIELSEN

    Flute Concerto

  • SIBELIUS

    The Swan of Tuonela

  • NIELSEN (orch SWENSEN)

    Four Movements for Orchestra

PLEASE NOTE THESE CONCERTS START AT 2PM

Estimated duration: 1 hour 50 mins (incl. 20min interval)

Joseph Swensen Conductor
André Cebrián Flute
Katherine Bryer Cor Anglais

Look north for luminous music from Orkney, Denmark and Finland, brought together by SCO Conductor Emeritus Joseph Swensen.

Maxwell Davies imagined the hard-fought arrival of an Orcadian spring in one of his final works, written in 2013 for the SCO, while Sibelius offers an atmospheric portrait of the underworld of Finnish mythology, whose guardian swan is sung by SCO cor anglais player Katherine Bryer.

SCO Principal Flute André Cebrián is the soloist in Nielsen’s brilliant Concerto, while Swensen offers his own rich orchestral reimagining of the same composer’s youthful First String Quartet.

*The performance of Peter Maxwell Davies’ Ebb of Winter is supported by Resonate, a PRS Foundation initiative in partnership with Association of British Orchestras, BBC Radio 3 and Boltini Trust.

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